yum upgrade from F17 to F18

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 11/08/2012 01:10 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm upgrading Fedoras by yum [1] for some time. I know that is not 
> supported method and can have some problems. But the truth is that it 
> was always less error prone as compared to upgrade using Anaconda or 
> preupgrade. Even with upgrade from F16 to F17, which I originally 
> thought would be impossible. But again "yum upgrade" was smoother than 
> preupgrade.
>
> As upgrading using yum require to have open wiki and follow steps 
> written there, I decided to automate it and created script 
> fedora-upgrade:
>
>   https://github.com/xsuchy/fedora-upgrade
>
> When run, it will upgrade your Fedora (currently only F17) to Fedora 
> 18 using "yum upgrade".
> It is first shot, so it is definitely not intended for production 
> systems. But you are very welcome to test it and report problems or 
> just your ideas how to enhance it.
> I intentionally left this script verbose, to help initial debugging.
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum
>

You should file this as an RFE against yum since arguably this should be 
the default behavior when users run "yum upgrade" but since the yum 
maintainers have not done that already there has to be some gotcha- you 
are forgetting

JBG